Emsworth Museum holds over 10,000 items and the details of many of these items can be searched for on this site. More than 2000 photographs can be viewed of which more than 1100 are high resolution scans of our photograph collection. There are also many audio recordings and videos in our collection.
You can access many of our exhibitions on-line. Use the search box at the top to find something specific. Find instructions on how to use the search box here.
Featured Item
Postcard, monochrome.
Depicting the front of E.A. Stevens Greengrocer and General Stores of North Street, Emsworth showing two ladies in the entrance one of whom is Mrs Ada…
Featured Collection
The Foster Collection
Accounts dated 1871-83. Requests for supplies to William Foster from a variety of local businesses for timber and coal. Originally part of the estate…
Featured Exhibit
Archaeology on the Coastal Plain
This exhibition, curated by Ann Davies, showcased some of the work undertaken in recent years by Chichester & District Archaeology...
Recently Added Items
What of the Future?
The present chairman considers the 2005 forecast and the likely future development of the Museum and the Trust
(In 2005 with some prescience) The Chairman Looked Forward
20 years ago Gerry Williams, the fourth chairman of the Trust, looked at the future development of the Museum
Our Museum in the Digital Age
Educating the public on local history and the Trust using the global reach available with digital technology
Collections Management and Conservation
The present curator details the professionalising of the Museum
Margaret Pole's Warblington Castle
An historical story about the 'likely' interior of Warblington Castle
A dip into my father Strahan Soames archive
Strahan Soames, author and third chairman of the Trust, from a daughter's perspective
Michael Kennett
Life of Michael Kennett, second chairman of the Trust and a proud Emsworthian, as recalled by his son
Tribute to David Jonathan Rudkin
David Rudkin, Trust founder and first chairman, as depicted from a son's perspective